This document examines the best practices that the leading service providers are adopting to upgrade their Wi-Fi deployments from a hot spot convenience service to a critical 3G/4G offload infrastructure solution.

Case Study

Madera Community Hospital was faced with the daunting job of expanding and improving service including optimizing existing AP locations, evaluating upgrades to 802.11n, and assessing the network's readiness for additional clients and services.

A leading regional provider of voice, video, and data services for residential and business communities, as well as government agencies, needed to qualify Wireless Broadband Gateways (WBG) from two vendors in order to guarantee superior customer satisfaction.

The Service Provider Master Test Plan for Wireless LAN Networks establishes guidelines, best practices and baseline evaluation criteria for testing the performance and scalability of wireless equipment used and deployed by service providers.